The Road to the NVO
The environment to exploit these huge sky surveys does not exist today!
- 1 Terabyte at 10 Mbyte/s takes 1 day
- Expect 100ís of intensive queries and 1000ís of casual queries per-day
- Data will reside at multiple locations
- Existing analysis tools do not scale to Terabyte data sets
Acute need in a few years,